Creative Equity Toolkit

The Creative Equity Toolkit has links to hundreds of practical resources, inspiring case studies and important research on increasing diversity in the arts.

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Article

A headshot of Patrisse Cullors, a black performance artist.

Patrisse Cullors: Art Is Liberation

Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors says cultural work will be the key to shifting the system and imagining a world after MAGA. “This chapter of my life is really amplifying the art-cultural work, trying to remind people that art and culture actually is what shifts the whole system.”

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  • 15 minute
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  • Published: 2026
    Country: USA

  • Author: Rebekah Sager, The Nation

Research

Pointless Diversity Training: Unconscious Bias, New Racism and Agency

Research into the effectiveness of unconscious bias training.

'The latest fashion of ‘unconscious bias training’ is a diversity intervention based on unproven suppositions and is unlikely to help eliminate racism in the workplace. Knowing about bias does not automatically result in changes in behaviour by managers and employees.'

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  • 30 minute
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  • Published: 2017
    Country: UK

  • Author: Mike Noon, Queen Mary University of London

Checklist

Power Dynamics

Designed for US municipal government and artist collaborations, this tool sets out questions to identify what each partner brings to the project, including convening power, knowledge power, decision-making power and financial power.

'Being good partners means striving for conditions in which power is shared, and addressing incidents of imbalance or misuse of power. It means examining situational power, for example that each partner has its own capacity, resources, relationships, or influence.'

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  • 6 minute
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  • Published: N/A
    Country: USA

  • Author: Municipal-Artist Partnerships

Article

#Publishingpaidme: authors share advances to expose racial disparities

Article on the #publishingpaidme movement which aims to highlight disparities in the payment of black and white authors. Nearly 3000 writers have disclosed their payment alongside demographic data.

'Malorie Blackman, the UK’s former children’s laureate and author of the Noughts and Crosses series, wrote that she had “never in my life received anything like the sums being posted by some white authors”.'

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  • 4 minute
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  • Published: 2020
    Country: UK

  • Author: Alison Flood, the Guardian

Toolkit

Title page of Creating Cultures & PRactices for Racial Equity - includes a picture of an eye and two hands, one holding a brush, another a magnifying glass on either side of it as it emerges from a tree suggesting new frontiers, creation and reflection

Race Forward: Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity

"Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity contains a variety of tools that emerged from Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in arts organizations."

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  • 60+ minute
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  • Published: 2021
    Country: USA

  • Author: Nayantara Sen & Terry Keleher, Race Forward

Library

Racial Equity Tools - Core Concepts section

Overview and resources unpacking the core concepts of racial equity race theory:

* Racial Equity
* Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity
* Racism
* Structural Racism
* Whiteness and White Privilege
* Internalized Racism
* Theory

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  • 1 minute
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  • Published: 2020
    Country: USA

  • Author: Racial Equity Tools